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Minor Editorial Rant on....
Jul. 18th, 2005 06:48 pm... sport utility vehicles and minivans.
I walked a mile to the grade school where I usually hit the tennis ball against the wall. It was nearly 6 PM and I figured that the parking lot would be empty as usual. Unfortunately, the school is doubling as a day care it seems and I was trying to hit the ball against the wall during evening pick-up.
Usually I'd get a few decent hits in and a minivan would need to drive through, then a few more and an Explorer would drive up. It got to the point where trying to play was pointless as an endless parade of huge vehicles came up with Mrs. Cleaver-esque ladies were getting out to pick up their little darlings. The number and size of the vehicles were impressive, especially in this day of enormous gas prices.
( more incoherent rambling here )
Yeah, I admit, I am a hypocrite of sorts, I've been pondering buying a Toyota Rav4, but it's not that big... hee hee...
Rant Clarification: For the record, it's not that I don't like SUV's, but rather that I didn't get to practice tennis because of them and their drivers. I must vent somehow and speaking out against soccer moms seems wrong. That is all :P
I walked a mile to the grade school where I usually hit the tennis ball against the wall. It was nearly 6 PM and I figured that the parking lot would be empty as usual. Unfortunately, the school is doubling as a day care it seems and I was trying to hit the ball against the wall during evening pick-up.
Usually I'd get a few decent hits in and a minivan would need to drive through, then a few more and an Explorer would drive up. It got to the point where trying to play was pointless as an endless parade of huge vehicles came up with Mrs. Cleaver-esque ladies were getting out to pick up their little darlings. The number and size of the vehicles were impressive, especially in this day of enormous gas prices.
( more incoherent rambling here )
Yeah, I admit, I am a hypocrite of sorts, I've been pondering buying a Toyota Rav4, but it's not that big... hee hee...
Rant Clarification: For the record, it's not that I don't like SUV's, but rather that I didn't get to practice tennis because of them and their drivers. I must vent somehow and speaking out against soccer moms seems wrong. That is all :P
